Pittheus

Family: Athens · Role: king of Trazene · First appears: Euripides, Medea — Scene 4

Life events

• Hippolytus was brought up by Pittheus in Trœzene.(Euripides, Hippolytus — Scene 1 · 📍 Trœzene)
  • With: Hippolytus
  • “where it happened that Hippolytus was being brought up by Pittheus”

Euripides, Medea — Scene 4

• friends with Aegeus “And to me at least the dearest of all my friends in war”
• parent: Pelops “The most pious son, as report says, of Pelops.”

Euripides, Hippolytus — Scene 1

• ward: Hippolytus (guardian->ward) “where it happened that Hippolytus was being brought up by Pittheus”
• pupil: Hippolytus “the son of Theseus, born of the Amazon, Hippolytus, pupil of the chaste Pittheus”

Euripides, Hippolytus — Scene 6

• with Theseus (Pittheus is an aged and respected member of Theseus's household.) “Has any ill befallen the aged Pittheus? His life is now indeed far advanced; but still he would be much lamented by us, were he to leave this house.”

Euripides, The Heraclidæ — Scene 2

• child: Aethra “Pittheus was son of Pelops and Æthra, daughter of Pittheus,”
• younger kin: Theseus (Pittheus is Theseus’s maternal grandfather.) “Pittheus was son of Pelops and Æthra, daughter of Pittheus, and your father Theseus was born of her.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.